Nyx

Just a little creature enjoying my trash treasures and following my hyperfixations

[doriandrifting]

Okay again, I don’t believe in conformitygate but I’m obsessed with it as a concept. The fact that Murray said you have to water a story down if you want to sell it to the masses, but that all it takes is one person calling bullshit and then everyone will fall in line. The fact that this is what has happened with the theory and the general audience doesn’t even know why it’s call conformitygate. Will saying it’s like a scary movie that you can’t turn off. The finale being played in the theaters. I wish the Duffers were as insane writers as us.

[greycoloredhounds]

conformitygate is real but not in the “secret ninth episode” kinda way it’s just so incredibly meta that the duffer brothers who consistently claimed they were against conformity ended up being the exact ones who conformed along with the ga and theres only a few of us who actually understand that.

that’s the real conformitygate. stranger things ended up being a lesson about a failed lesson.

[miwiheroes]

episode 9 happened off screen btw

[roman-god-of-ikea]

Can we just have a moment of appreciation for how perfectly conformitygate worked?

Because holy shit that was genuinely incredible. We managed to get so many people who hated us to (somewhat) join our side in hating that ending.

These were people who honestly would’ve been fine with whatever slop the duffers churned out - either because they were going to glaze them no matter what, or because they didn’t care enough about the show to see how badly it failed its own messages.

But then they saw how off the real finale felt when it was presented as a much better storyline. They believed the alternative theories. They liked them. They understood them. They wanted them to be true.

And you know why it worked? Because we showed them what we could’ve had. Not what we didn’t like about the finale. We showed them how much potential this show had. We gave them a really cool concept! By not tearing down the finale and instead building it up as something better, we got even the duffer defenders on our side! They wanted so badly to believe that the duffers were pulling off one of the greatest television reveals in history.

And now the curtain has been pulled back. They see the duffers for all their constant flaws. They were right there with us, picking the finale apart, pointing out every plot hole and thematic failure - thinking it would lead to something better. Now they know it was just bad.

Now all they’ll see when watching this show again is how much that beautiful potential was wasted! No one who liked conformitygate as a theory can look at this show again and be happy with how it actually ended.

We got everyone to see how much better this show could’ve been. We got them to understand how we felt. We got massive amounts of this audience to turn on this show. We got us all on the same side - against the creators who failed us.

Who’s noisy now?

[catwouthats]

I just realized that the upside down was SUPPOSED to be destroyed to the band The Butthole Surfers but Mike was basically FORCED to choose a different record.

Mike was forced to choose a different ending.

“I built the bomb I should be able to pick the record” his character basically decides how this whole world/story should come to an end but… his original idea for how it ended got switched.

It’s still an ending Mike chose, but not the original ending.

[wisermoon]

Reminder that the very core of conformity gate is Mike Wheeler being a queer closeted man who chose conformity over being his true self, and now he’s seeing his life pass by with the consequences of that decision (except it’s all happening in his head where we, the audience, is trapped with him under Vecna’s curse)

The gate doesn’t WORK unless Mike is a closeted queer man.

It also doesn’t work if Byler isn’t canon.

That’s the gate.

[dragonno1412]

Remember lab safety everyone 👍

Some thought process under the cut!

I've always wanted to depict chronic pain or waves of pain with red circle-ish pattern, well There's finally a piece where I can use it! Super happy! It's the big chunks of circle shapes centered on him, and they're supposed to represent radiation & radiation pain!

Also I have no idea how to represent the "human turning into ghost" theme outside of his body, I used red blood transitioning to green blood in the end and it just looks like his human blood was blasted out of him lol, I hope I get it across

[elf-callum-human-rayla]

I actually screamed

[forbidden-royal]

AND THEN THE WAY DANTE BASCO ACTUALLY FUCKING SHOWED UP oh my goodness I CANT with this show

[forbidden-royal]

Genuinely tweaking I can’t stop thinking about a Tangled arcane jekko AU

Like jinx as rapunzel, Silco as Mother Gothel and ekko as Flynn Rider. The slow burn, the visuals, the characterizations UGH I WANT IT SO BAD

[iminmywritersdungeon]

Love how the four options after gay divorce are Jesus, dictator, emo, and existential horror

[forbidden-royal]

I think it’s funny that you can really tell the state of my mental health based on my writing lol. Like I used to write really angsty fics littered with panic attacks but now the last couple fics I’ve posted are a lot more comedic (I still thoroughly enjoy angst but this is just an interesting pattern I’ve noticed haha)

[p-a-p-e-r-t-o-w-n-s]

Autumn 🍂 is here !!

[forbidden-royal]

Gravity falls has me in a chokehold and it’s roughhh

[dawgo]

T. J. Eckleburg

[dawgo]

Cover free ver. (As requested)

[forbidden-royal]

“But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Bill Cipher.”

[forbidden-royal]

Why is it always “I’d die for you”??

Just once I want someone to choose to live for me

[forbidden-royal]

Where’d all the time go?? Pride month is just about over and I barely celebrated. Graduation took up too much of my month and I didn’t get the chance to take pride in my identity.

“It’s fine. You can just do something next June.”

I know. But I don’t want to spend another year waiting to be seen.

[funkyfoxolotl]

little spoiler for chap 1/ pilot of my wip!

Memories replay in my mind, my seventh birthday still stands out as different. 

Sitting there with that necklace in my hands

The celestial steel was warm like it was fresh off of mom’s bench

It was so colorful

Like ethereally vibrant

enjoy ur nugget

@forbidden-royal

[forbidden-royal]

Ooooo tasty nugget!! Thanks!